The Dogs I Have Kissed
- Dina O.
- Feb 14, 2017
- 2 min read
Title: The Dogs I Have Kissed
Author: Trista Mateer
Publisher: CreateSpace
Year: 2015
Pages: 90 (Paperback)
Rating: 2.5
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Assuming every avid reader has a problem about double standard on books, I have one too. When two books of poetry keep repeating the same phrases, it's either I'd say it's a bad or good thing. The thing is? Sometimes I don't know what makes it good, 'good', and vice versa. I just know that even though both books written beautifully, there's something that doesn't meet my parameter of touching poems for the 'bad' one. So yeah, that's it. This book also keep repeating words like salt, knees, poems, kiss, etc. It makes me wonder whether the author was running of option for vocabularies that she decided to use the same ones all over again. But on the other side, by repeating them, it should be poetic somehow...right? I just don't feel it. But I believe, the previous poetry book I have read (which I forgot the title) and also uses the same words on each poems, I liked it way better.
The opening of this book can be categorized as promising, though:
"I have been told that girls always fall for men like their fathers, but I found it a hard concept to grasp when he was always gone and I grew up on radio static and blackberry preserves."
But when I flipped and read again, this book literally told me nothing other than love poems. I've always looked up to poetry books to get references about the perspective of poets toward social problems or anything, really, that doesn't always revolve in love. As if poetry is a symbol of romantic relationship. It's less of what a poetry should be. Poetry should be the symbol of strength, where a plateful of article about feminist march can be rewritten in a few verses with mesmerizing metaphors or just regular phrases, actually. Then what's the difference of this book with the highly praised Lang Leav's works, anyways? But even after realizing the facts above, I cannot shake the feeling that I liked this book...partly. Imaginative. It uses simple nouns like tea or hair and turns it into something worth the read. Although, this wouldn't be a book I recommend, you cannot get enough of poems, right?
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